I appeared live on the Canadian radio show "Alberta at Noon" to talk about doppelgangers. The other guest was photographer Francois Brunelle, who takes photos of nonbiological doubles for his "I'm Not a Lookalike" project. Listeners called in with lookalike stories. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

I appeared live on the Canadian radio show "Alberta at Noon" to talk about doppelgangers. The other guest was photographer Francois Brunelle, who takes photos of nonbiological doubles for his "I'm Not a Lookalike" project. Listeners called in with lookalike stories. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Are we there yet? #art #oilpainting

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

A haunted house but it's just your tired body

Emma Thompson is a queen.

My daughter Autumn (3.5) has been requesting Stevie Nicks and asking to watch the X-Files. I’m on cloud nine over here.

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

"Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin fear entire academic departments may be on the chopping block after the university quietly appointed a committee charged with studying the restructuring of its liberal arts programs...none from the departments where cuts are feared." bit.ly/43rfyDt

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

#NoKings Miami!

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

Tickets acquired for Rush at the Forum…

RIP Diane Keaton My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool. She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out. What a unique talent & human being.

My world is mainly right here.

Meanwhile in #Portland

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Drummer Anika Nilles, who previously played with Jeff Beck, will join Lee and Lifeson for a 50th anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of the late Neil Peart. Details ↓

On this day in Horror History, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD premiered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1968.

My world is mainly right here.

Laughable. The whole thing

A Day of Autumn illustrated by Marjorie Auerbach (1967)

Got my performance review.

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Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

Deadline October 1st.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

this exists it is called thinking

New addition to our home. Everyone is excited. My daughter most of all.

Johnny Carson in the early 1970s: "Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?"

sure feels like we're getting near the end of the opening montage now

Deadline October 1st.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

THIS is the first picture in my favorites folder, if you’re asking

“When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say: Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.” A life of art, activism, and heart. R.I.P. Robert Redford. 🕊️💫

"Severance" star Britt Lower wrote "Let Me Out" on her acceptance speech paper at the #Emmys, a shoutout to her Helly R character

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

this is a note of appreciation for tiny stools. a plant stand, a resting place for a pile of books - it is one of my favorite items of decor. I go to yard sales specifically looking for them.

Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...

I was a guest on CBC's Radio Noon Quebec for an episode on doppelgängers. We talked about the image of the uncanny double in pop culture and how it has changed over time. The show also featured an interview with photographer Francois Brunelle. My segment starts at 13:00. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

The 1980s for the young now is what the 1950s/early 60s were for us in the 1980s: a teen utopia constructed by one generation for another, with the nuances, complexities, and ugliness of the earlier era sanded away.

That last episode of Alien: Earth was a really good Alien movie.

Semester is off to a great start. Two weeks in and students are engaged, attending, reading, thinking out loud. We all seem to enjoy the face-to-face interaction. Something is in the air, at least for now. Hoping this all continues.

The art of the critic is to transmit his knowledge of and enthusiasm for art to others. (1963)

They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING